Toilet and detergent composition



Patented Feb. 26, 1929. I UNITED STATES BORIS N. SOKOLOFI', OI BIDGHIILD, NEW I I TOILET AND DETERGEN'I COMPOSITIOH.

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This invention relates to solid and semisolid stable, toilet and detergent compositions containing as essential ingredients soap, water, borax and mineral oil'or one of the unctuous by-products of petroleum,

known as petroleum jellies.

Heretofore compositions of soap with mineral oil, commercially known as naphtha soaps, and compositions of soap with petroleum jelly, known as cold-cream soaps, and

compositions of soap with borax, commercially known as borax soaps, have been prepared. The commercial' grades of such soaps contain only relatively very small amounts of either borax or of petroleum products, and are essentially soaps rather than detergent compositions of which the constituents other than the soap are predominating ingredients. When it was desired to increase the relative amount of borax, it was found necessary to introduce a correspondingly high amount of caustic soda, as is the case with a product called Born-soap, which has a high content of caustic soda. The attempts to introduce into soap a high amount of petroleum products were up to the present, successful only for the introduction of a comparatively high percentage of mineral oils of very low viscosity, such as gasoline, benzine and naphtha. And in all known compositions the combination of soap, borax and mineral oil, was achieved by the addition of several ingredi-' ents which are either harmful, like caustics and ammonia, or useless, like rosin and cream of tartar. 7

My invention permits the making of compositions containing active and harmless elements only by a procedure described hereafter. ingredients of my compositions are added is essential for obtaining a stable product with high contents of the active ingredients.

The procedure is as follows:

Borax is mixed with water and, boiled until fully dissolved; dry soap is then added to b'orax solution and heated to the boiling point with continual stirring, until the soap is completely dissolved. Then mineral oil, or petroleum jelly, or both are added with stirring and continuous heating, until a homogenous product results. The resulting mass is allowed to cool down to about 75 F. then stirred briskly again. and poured out into forms or moulds. I

It is seen from the foregoing description The order in which the component Application Med May 20, 1985. Serial 10. 31,688.

of the procedure that only four ingredients:

water, soap, borax and petroleum I roducts are necessary, but coloring matter 0 suitable nature, and perfumes, may be added whendesired, without afl'ecting the-process or com osition.

T e ingredients are used in following relative amounts:

Soap, 40'parts by weight. j Borax, from 5 to 30 parts by weight. Water, from 40 to 145 parts by weight. Petroleum products, from 10 to 40 parts by weight.

The soap is preferably neutral tallow or castile or marseille grades; but any neutral soap may be used according to the kind of finished product that is desired. If a semisolid product is desired any laundry soap may be used, but if a solid toilet soap is the desired product, castile or marseille soap is the best ingredient.

Any commercial grade of borax is suitable; it being important only to have it as free as possible from caustics.

Any of the numerous petroleum products may be used in my compositions, be inning with benzine or asoline and inclu ing all of the unctuous by-products, such as mineral grease and petroleum jellies. The

proper selection of the mineral oil distillate depends upon the final product desired: when a laundry detergent is desired, kerosene should be selected, for semi-solid compositions, similar to vanishing or cold-creams, white mineral oil solely, or in combination with white petroleum jelly should be used. and for hard products to take the toilet soap, petroleum jelly is most suitable.

The relatix e amount of borax rises with the amount of petroleum products desired, and the amount of water is to certain extent governed by the amount of borax used, but as long as the point of saturation of the borax solution 'is not passed, the relative amount of water may be variedto produce either a soft or hard final product.

.A specific composition of my productis as follows:.

7 Dry soap, 12 parts by weight.

Borax, 2 parts by weight.

Petroleum jelly, 5 parts by weight.

Water, 20 parts by weight.

The product made by my process and having the above stated specific composition is as hard as usual grades of toilet soap and may be used as such. It may be moulded,

lace of resscd, powdered, flaked or granulated, as

ard soaps are; and coloring matter and per fumes may be added to the ingredients or finished product.

The compositions made of ingredients and by the prowss described above are not only harmless to the skin and textiles,'but very useilul in that respect, in that they contain a high amount/oi mineral oil orunctuous petroleum products which act beneficiall on the skin and protect the fibres of textiles rom excessive saponification of fatty or oily substances contained'in the fibres, and essential for the preservation of their wearing qualities; on the other hand the same mineral oil ingredients in combination with borax and in the absence of free alkali protects the dyes from running and permit simultaneous washingof difierently colored fabrics without the danger of interchange of colors.

' This application is a continuation in part of my applications Serial Number 684-,087, filed January 2, 192%, and Serial Number 726,636, filed July 17, 1924.

I claim:

A detergent composition in the form of a solid, homogeneous, stable body comprising, as essential ingredients, about 12 parts by weight of soap, 2 parts by weight of borax, 5 parts by Wei ht of petroleum jelly, and 20 parts by Weig t of water, substantially as described.

BORIS N. SOKOLOFF. 

